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Frijters, Paul - 1997

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Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace

Lent, Max van - 2017

We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...

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A commercial gift for charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Te, Bao; Schippers, Anouk L. - 2016

charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report …, complete markets, and absent transaction cost, selling charity-linked bundles should not be profitable even when consumers are … significantly higher profits. No such effect is observed when the donation is limited to 2%. Offering charity-linked bundles …

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Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity

Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018

mostly do not follow through. Our theory shows that having people to formally state the intended amount may alleviate this …

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Are education subsidies an efficient redistributive device?

Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can...

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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class

Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016

The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax-benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...

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Monopsony power, income taxation and welfare

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021

This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into profits. Monopsony power increases the tax...

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Tax curvature

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021

In a Mirrleesian environment, a monopsonist sets hourly wages and individuals choose how many hours to work. Labor market outcomes do not only depend on the level and slope of the income tax function, but also on its curvature. A more concave tax schedule raises the elasticity of labor supply,...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2016

: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …

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Does a tougher environmental policy raise unemployment? : Optimal taxation, public goods and environmental policy with rationing of labour supply

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 1993

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